- Full Text
- Great God how frail a thing is man
How swift his minutes pass
His age contracts within a span
He blooms and dies like grass.
- Listed on Page Number
- 286
- Sampler Worked By
- Lucy Guild
- Date of Sampler
- 1802
- Place Sampler Made
- n.p.
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 186
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- Biles, Dr. “Thomas-Town,” William Billings, The Continental Harmony… Boston: Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews, 1794. pg. 66.
- Notes
- “Words by Dr. Biles”
https://archive.org/details/continentalharmo00bill_0/page/66/mode/1up?q=frail